Last year, Amazon appeared to have confirmed that they were developing a tvOS app for Prime Video, but the second-largest streaming service in the United States is still missing from the Apple TV. Speaking at Vox Media’s Code Conference yesterday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the company wants “acceptable business terms” before it can bring Prime Video to platforms like Apple TV.

We can always get the player on the device, the question is whether you can get it on with acceptable business terms.

When asked whether “acceptable business terms” meant paying Apple’s famous 30 percent cut on in-app purchases and subscriptions, Bezos declined to answer and said that “private business discussions should stay private.”

Last October Amazon pulled both Apple TV and Chromecast from its retail store citing potential customer confusion over which streaming devices support Amazon Prime Video.

It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.

Now, it seems that Amazon can bring its video service to the Apple TV and return the set-top box to its store only after Apple offers “acceptable business terms”, which would probably mean agreeing to take less than 30% cut of anything sold within Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV.

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The Seattle-based Web retailer sent an e-mail to its marketplace sellers that it will stop selling the Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast since those devices don’t “interact well” with Prime Video.

No new listings for the products will be allowed and posting of existing inventory will be removed Oct. 29, Amazon said.

As noted by Wired, “in doing so, it will absent the second and fourth best-selling streaming boxes from its digital shelves.”

The move comes not long after Apple announced the 4th gen. Apple TV and just days after Google revealed the new version of Chromcast device.

Amazon spokesperson provided the following statement:

Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.

This will most likely mean that we will not see the official Amazon Prime Video app on the Apple TV 4.

Even though, if the Apple TV (2nd, 3rd or 4th gen.) is your only streaming device, you can still watch Prime Video on the big screen by using AirPlay or HDMI cable. Check out how.

The new Apple TV will be available at the end of October starting at $149 for a 32GB model and $199 for a 64GB model.

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